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Afanasevo

Attested 3000 BCE – 2000 BCE

Chalcolithic archaeological culture of Siberia

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Why this bar's edges are floors, not a founding and a fall.

The atlas draws the world at 2 moments in time, not continuously. This bar runs from the first snapshot in which Afanasevo appears to the last, so both edges are floors — the earliest and latest years it is attested, not a founding and a dissolution.

3000 BCE 2 snapshots · 1,000 years unattested at the widest 2000 BCE
3000 BCE2000 BCE

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3000 BCE – still standing

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3000 BCE – still standing

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Oxus

Attested 2000 BCE

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Pamir Mountains

3000 BCE – still standing

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Sintashta

Attested 2000 BCE

Landmark

Kolsai Lakes

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 3000 BCE and 2000 BCE.

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